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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

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A fast MVDC breaker is an important component to enable uprating existing alternating-current distribution corridors in congested urban areas to MVDC, and connect distributed renewable energy sources to concentrated demand for growing applications such as electric vehicle charging.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. He also said low-cost, low-carbon hydrogen fuel should be considered as part of the renewable energy mix. We don’t have enough solar energy and wind energy.”

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Solar-to-Hydrogen Water Splitter Outlasts Next Best Tech By 14x

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Several companies and initiatives are making it by using wind or solar electricity to split water via electrolysis. . Direct solar water-splitting using PEC is a more elegant, one-step way to harness solar energy for hydrogen production. Green hydrogen research and technologies have been gaining momentum around the world.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.

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